Numbers 2:32

Summary

2:32 These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. ¹  All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

Numbers 3:15

3:15 “Number the Levites by their clans ²  and their families; every male from a month old and upward you are to number.” ³ 

Numbers 3:20

3:20 The sons of Merari by their families were Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their clans.

Numbers 3:31

3:31 Their responsibilities included the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the utensils of the sanctuary with which they ministered, ⁴  the curtain, and all their service. ⁵ 

Numbers 4:46

4:46 All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their families and by their clans,

Numbers 7:9

7:9 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried ⁶  on their shoulders, was their responsibility. ⁷ 

Numbers 16:32

16:32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with their households, and all Korah’s men, and all their goods.

Numbers 21:18

21:18 The well which the princes ⁸  dug,

which the leaders of the people opened

with their scepters and their staffs.”

And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

Numbers 25:2

25:2 These women invited ⁹  the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods. ¹⁰ 

Numbers 26:42

Dan

26:42 These are the Danites by their families: from Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These were the families of Dan, according to their families.

Numbers 33:4

33:4 Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them; the Lord also executed judgments on their gods.

Numbers 36:12

36:12 They were married into the families of the Manassehites, the descendants of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s family.

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¹ tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 34.

² tn Heb “the house of their fathers.” So also in v. 20.

³ tn Heb “you are to/shall number them.”

⁴ tn The verb is יְשָׁרְתוּ (yÿsharÿtu, “they will serve/minister”). The imperfect tense in this place, however, probably describes what the priests would do, what they used to do. The verb is in a relative clause: “which they would serve with them,” which should be changed to read “with which they would serve.”

⁵ tn The word is literally “its [their] service.” It describes all the implements that were there for the maintenance of these things.

⁶ tn The verb is the imperfect tense, but it describes their customary activity – they had to carry, they used to carry.

⁷ tn Heb “upon them,” meaning “their duty.”

⁸ sn The brief song is supposed to be an old workers’ song, and so the mention of leaders and princes is unusual. Some think they are given credit because they directed where the workers were to dig. The scepter and staff might have served some symbolic or divining custom.

⁹ tn The verb simply says “they called,” but it is a feminine plural. And so the women who engaged in immoral acts with Hebrew men invited them to their temple ritual.

¹⁰ sn What Israel experienced here was some of the debased ritual practices of the Canaanite people. The act of prostrating themselves before the pagan deities was probably participation in a fertility ritual, nothing short of cultic prostitution. This was a blatant disregard of the covenant and the Law. If something were not done, the nation would have destroyed itself.